Holy CrossHoly Crusaders (11-5-2,Cross 10-1-1 NEWHA)Women’s vs. Sacred Heart Hockey (19-5-0, 8-4-0 NEWHA) Jan. 26 & 27, 2018 • 7:30 & 4:00 p.m. • Shelton, Conn. G A M E D A Y Q U I C K F A C T S WOMEN’S HOCKEY ON THE ROAD AGAINST SACRED HEART • The Holy Cross women’s hockey team will travel to Shelton, Friday, Jan . 26: Live Stats http://bit.ly/livestatsSH Conn. for two games against the Sacred Heart Pioneers. Saturday, Jan . 27: Live Stats http://bit.ly/livestats2SH AUTISM AWARENESS FUNDRAISER • The Crusaders are conducting a fundraiser for autism All-time vs Sacred Heart: 23-12-1 awareness. The team has partnered with Autism Speaks, an organization that promotes solutions for the needs of people affected by autism and their families. 2017-2018 SCHEDULE & RESULTS • To donate, please visit this link http://bit.ly/AutismFund. • The Autism Awareness game will take place at the Hart Cen- ter on Feb. 9 against Franklin Pierce. DATE OPPONENT . TIME / SCORE SEPTEMBER__________________________________________________ HOLY CROSS HEADLINES Sept . 24 LAURENTIAN (EXH) . W 7-0 Sept . 30 NEPEAN(EXH) . W 5-2 • The Crusaders are 11-5-2 on the season after two wins OCTOBER__________________________________________________ against the Saint Michael’s Purple Knights. Oct . 6 RIT . T 2-2 (OT) • Holy Cross is ranked second in NCAA Division I in scoring Oct . 7 RIT . L . 3-2. Oct . 13 at Dartmouth . L 3-2 (OT) offense with 4.39 goals per game. Oct . 14 at New Hampshire . L 9-1 • The Crusaders scored 16 goals against Saint Michael’s on Oct . 18 CHINESE NATIONAL TEAM . L 3-1 Jan. 19 and 20 from eight different players, including Katie Oct. 20 at Frankline Pierce ......................W, 3-1 Oct . 25 FRANKLIN PIERCE . W, 6-1 MacCuaig, who recorded her first career hat trick. NOVEMBER__________________________________________________ • Holy Cross has won five-consecutive games with three shut- Nov. 3 at St. Michael’s ........................W, 9-0 outs in a row. Nov. 4 at St. Michael’s ........................W, 9-1 • Emily Lissner notched her second hat trick of the season. Nov . 11 SACRED HEART . W, 2-1 Nov . 12 SACRED HEART . L, 2-1 • Lissner had five points on the weekend and leads the team Nov. 17 at Harvard............................. L. 8-3 with 12 goals. Nov . 18 HARVARD . W, 2-0 • The Crusaders have posted an 88% succes rate on the pen- Nov. 24 at Dartmouth. .L, 4-3 DECEMBER__________________________________________________ alty kill (44-50), which ranks second in the NEWHA. Dec. 8 at Saint Anselm. .. T, 0-0 JANUARY__________________________________________________ INSIDE THE NUMBERS Jan . 5 POST . W, 11-1 Jan . 6 POST . W, 8-1 • Emily Lissner leads the Crusaders in goals with 12 through Jan . 13 SAINT ANSELM . W, 1-0 18 games. Jan . 19 SAINT MICHAEL’S . W, . 10-0 • Kara Violette leads the team with 27 points on nine goals Jan . 20 SAINT MICHAEL’S . W, . 6-0 Jan. 26 at Sacred Heart .....................7:30 p.m. and 18 assists. Jan. 27 at Sacred Heart ....................4:00 p.m. • Violette is second in the NEWHA in assists with 18. Violette FEBRUARY__________________________________________________ ranks fourth in Holy Cross career points with 120. Feb. 2 at Post .............................8:45 p.m. • Julia Pelletier has started 10 games, earing a 7-1-2 record. Feb. 3 at Post ............................12:45 p.m. Feb . 9 FRANKLIN PIERCE . 7:05 p .m . Pelletier holds a .931 save percentage and a 1.37 goals Feb. 10 at Franklin Pierce ....................4:00 p.m. against average, which is good for second in the NEWHA and Feb . 16 SAINT ANSELM . 7:05 p .m . fourth in the nation. Feb. 17 at Saint Anselm......................3:00 p.m. Feb. 23 Open Tournament Semifinals • The Crusaders are ranked second in the NEWHA with 79 Feb. 24 Open Tournament Championship goals. • Holy Cross has a conversion rate of 28.8% on the powerplay Home games, listed in BOLD CAPS (15/52), which ranks first in the NEWHA and first in the nation. GoHolyCross.com CRUSADERS IN GOAL • Sacred Heart will host Holy Cross after two wins against Post, • Julia Pelletier has recorded three shutouts on the season winning10-0 and 4-0. and ranks fourth in the nation with a 1.37 goals against • The Pioneers lead the nation in total goals scored with 119. average. • Sacred Heart has an 83.1% success rate on the penalty kill. • Pelletier is ranked second in the NEWHA with a .931 save • Their last loss was against Saint Michael’s, 1-0, on Jan. 12. percentage. • Tessie Salatas has recorded six career shutouts, which ranks PIONEERS TO WATCH second in the league. Salatas posted a shutout against Har- • Taylor Moreland leads the Pioneers and the NEWHA in point vard on Nov. 18. scoring (23-26-49). • Moreland is ranked in the top five in the nation in goals, BLEED VIOLETTE points and assits per game. •Kara Violette played in her 100th career game against Saint • She averages 0.96 goals per game, which ranks fourth in Michael’s on Jan. 20. the nation. In point scoring, she averages 2.04 per game, • Violette leads the team in points (9-18-27), which ranks third which is also good for fourth in the nation. overall in the NEWHA, after tallying three goals and two assists • Moreland leads the Pioneers averaging 1.08 assists per on the weekend. game, which is ranked fifth in the nation. • She is second in the NEWHA in career points with 120. • The senior forward is ranked second in the league in assists LAST TIME AGAINST SACRED HEART with 18, which also leads the team. • Holy Cross spilt a two-game series with Sacred Heart on Nov. • She has recorded at least one point in 13 of the Crusaders’ 11 and 12. last 14 games. • The Crusaders won the first game, 2-1, with goals from Anto- • The senior forward has had multi-point games in four of the nia Matzka and Kara Violette. last five. • Sacred Heart won the second game, 2-1. Taylor Moreland and Katie Stueve scored for the Pioneers. LISSNER LIGHTING IT UP • Senior forward Emily Lissner recorded her second hat trick of PREPARATION FOR HOCKEY EAST the season against Saint Michael’s on Jan. 19. • To start the 2017-2018 season, Holy Cross played two home • Lissner leads the team with 12 goals, which is a career high. games against the RIT Tigers, coming away with a tie on Oct. 6 • She has scored at least one goal in four out of the last five (2-2, OT) and a loss on Oct. 7 (3-2). games. • Katie MacCuaig scored her first career goal against the • Lissner was also named NEWHA Player of the Week for play Tigers in the tie. Jan. 14-20. • The Crusaders then traveled to Hanover, N.H. on Oct. 13 to play an exhibition game against the Dartmouth Big Green. VIOLETTE-MATTHIAS-REILLY Holy Cross lost in their second overtime game of the season, • Since Nov. 17, the Violette, Matthias and Reilly line has con- 3-2. tributed on 28 of 44 goals. • Danielle Doherty and Reilly each netted one goal against • Six out of the last seven goals scored by Matthias have been the Big Green. assisted by Violette or Reilly. • Holy Cross played the University of New Hampshire Oct. 14 and lost 9-1. RECAPPING SAINT MICHAEL’S • The Crusaders defeated the Purple Knights, 10-0, on Jan. 19 DIVISION I PLAY THROUGH NOVEMBER and 6-0 on Jan. 20. • On Nov. 17, Holy Cross and Harvard met in Cambridge for • Eight different Crusaders scored with Lissner and freshman the first game of a home-and-home series. The Crimson took Kaite MacCuiag recording hat tricks. the first game, 8-3. • Holy Cross went 2-2 on the power play through the two • Julia Pellieter recorded a career-high 49 saves against games against Saint Michael’s. Harvard in the loss. • The Crusaders won 60% of the faceoffs. • On Nov. 18, Holy Cross hosted Harvard and shutout the Crim- son, 2-0, for their first Division I victory in program history. SCOUTING SACRED HEART • Tessie Salatas recorded 32 saves in the win against Harvard • The Pioneers stand at 19-5-0 on the season. and recorded her sixth career shutout. GoHolyCross.com • “In my long career of coaching hockey, this is one of the NEW ADDITIONS TO THE CRUSADER STAFF biggest wins for me and this program,” said heach coach Peter • The team welcomes new associate head coach Katie Lacha- Van Buskirk on the win against Harvard. pelle. She came to Holy Cross after nine seasons working as • The Crusaders went back to Hanover, N.H. for their final Divi- an assistant coach at Boston University from 2008-2017. sion I game this season against Dartmouth. • Michaela Tosone also joins the staff as the new director of • Holy Cross lost, 4-3, as Julie Matthias scored two goals for operations. Tosone graduated from UMass Amherst where she her second multi-goal game this season. Violette assisted on was a member of the women’s hockey team. both goals. HOLY CROSS TALE OF THE TAPE SACRED HEART 4.39 Goals Per Game 4.96 1.89 Goals Allowed Per Game 1.42 36.7 Shots Per Game 41.5 2.9 Penalties Per Game 2.7 28.8% Power Play 15.2% 88.0% Penalty Kill 83.1% 2017-18 WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY RESULTS The Automated ScoreBook Holy Cross Game Results (as of Jan 25, 2018) All games Date Opponent Score Shots Overall Conf Time Att.